Saturday, March 11, 2023

Lunch from Kumo Sushi in New York

Grubhub had a special lunch deal in the city where you got $15 credit for lunch, making this meal almost free (total paid was $2.76 with tax).  The line was crazy to pick it up and it was way too much food, but cannot complain because was fresh, tasty and so cheap

Shrimp Tempura Roll, Eel Maki and Spicy Salmon Roll

Salad with carrot ginger dressing

All the food.  Definitely food coma-ed after


Sunday, February 26, 2023

Dinner from Villa italia Restaurant in Lyndhurst, NJ

I was in the mood for Italian so decided to try some place new.  Villa Italia has various family specials so I got one that was pizza + pasta.  It came with a large order of chicken parma, pizza of our choosing plus salad and soda for $35.  Great deal.  Everything was good but still loyal to Lyndhurst Pizza.
The whole family meal

Pizza with mushrooms

Chicken parmigiana

House salad

Garlic bread


Dessert from Lyndhurst Pastry Shop in Lyndhurst, NJ

In a town not that big, I'm thrilled that we have multiple pastry options.  My fav cannolis and thus cannoli cream are from here.  My absolute fav thing to get is the pignoli cannoli because I love the pignolis, and I love the cannolis, and together it is unbeatable.

There was some festival with these donut-type desserts stuffed with cannoli cream.  Of course got the pignoli cannoli, and also tried their cream puffs.  The cream puffs were okay but I prefer the ones from Erie


Brunch at Sonoma Bistro in Rutherford, NJ

Went to brunch with Laura and Affi and found a great spot which to date has become my fav brunch spot nearby.  They have plenty of both sweet and savory options on their brunch menu, plus more dinner-y foods.  I've only made my way through a few options but everything has been delicious and pretty affordable.

Guava Cream Cheese Croissant French Toast topped with fresh strawberries and blueberries with side of bacon.  Excellent.  The guava/cream cheese could have been more but it was everything I wanted in terms of a balance of sweet and salty, slightly more sweet

Salmon Eggs Benedict with home fries

Huevos Rancheros - Crispy tortilla chips topped with fried eggs, black beans, homemade chipotle sauce, avocado crema,

Dinner from Mighty Quinn's BBQ in Clifton, NJ

 In the mood for meat?  Mighty Quinn's BBQ is an excellent spot for those bbq meat cravings.  For the NY/NJ area, I think it's excellent and you can order and not break the bank.  Their brisket is probably my fav meat (as it usually is in most places).  I like the combos so you can get multiple meats, and love their vineger based sides and that you can get a bun if you want to make a sandwich.

All our food including 2 meat platter (brisket and sausage) plus pickled cucumbers, pickled red onions, broccoli salad and crispy honey chicken sandwich.  Made the beans

Crispy honey chicken sandwich - nicely fried and loved the honey but the sandwich wa pretty bare

Sandwich with needed slaw


Semi-home-made fish and chips

I found mushy peas at the grocery store so of course had to have some fish and chips.  We had TJ's fish nuggets, the mushy peas, and I made potato wedges in the air fryer.  Honestly, the air fryer is a God send.  We use it daily for so many things.  Great as a toaster, cooking many frozen things from TJ's, making veggies, wings or chicken.  Our instant pot fryer is one of the best on the market.

Fish nuggets, potato wedges and mushy peas

Close up of the air fried potato wedges


Snacks from Cubita Cafe and Kubo Coffee & Creamery in Nutley, NJ

Nutley apparently has great food.  On one street, side by side, are these two spots that have tasty and delicious snacks.  Dan is made at Kubo because of bad service he recently encountered, but I can't hide that their food particularly ube offerings, are delish.  Cubita Cafe has delicious Cuban food and some amazing empanadas.

Kubo menu


Ube iced coffee

Ube iced coffee, ube cheesecake and white chocolate macademia cookies

Creative empanadas - one bacon egg and cheese, the other taylor ham egg and cheese.  So New Jersey